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An Integrated Approach to Scaling Task-Based Runtime Systems for Next Generation Engineering problems

Journal Article · · International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
OSTI ID:1755953
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  1. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); University of Utah
  2. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
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The need to scale next-generation industrial engineering problems to the largest computational platforms presents unique challenges. Such problems may have complex coupled multi-physics models, as well as computationally and communication intensive algorithms not often seen in standard academic problems, while also needing high-demand I/O for analysis purposes. In such cases even codes with good existing scaling properties may need significant changes, addressed in a cross-cutting way to solve such problems at extreme scales. These challenges relate to system components that were not previously problematic on less complex problems and/or at smaller computational scales. This paper illustrates these challenges for Uintah, a highly scalable asynchronous many-task runtime system being applied to the modeling of a 1000 MWe ultra-supercritical coal boiler. In order to model this formidable, production engineering problem, not only was an integrated approach needed that built upon existing scalable components in areas such as complex stencil calculations and linear algebra, but the significant challenges of high demand I/O, complex task graphs, and infrastructure inefficiencies also had to be addressed. This integrated approach allowed this problem to run on 256K CPU cores on Mira, with good weak scaling to 512K CPU cores and similar strong scaling, except for radiation. The need for strong scaling of a new ray tracing-based radiation model required substantial Uintah infrastructure improvements before 119K CPU cores and 7.5K GPUs on Titan could be used, with scaling out to 256K CPU cores and 16K GPUs. The resulting code demonstrates not only excellent overall scalability but a significant improvement in overall performance for the full-scale, production boiler problem.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0002375; AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1755953
Journal Information:
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Journal Name: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Vol. 2017; ISSN 2167-4329
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
AMT Runtime
Coal Boiler
GPU
Mira
PIDX
Radiative Heat Transfer
Scalability
Titan
Uintah